"Pay Up: Female lawyers are working for income fairness—by suing their firms", Sep 2017

Traci Ribeiro…filed an Equal Pay Act lawsuit against the firm [Sedgwick]…

The firm won motions to move the complaint to federal court and compel arbitration, based on the firm’s partnership agreement. By April the parties had reached a provisional settlement, according to a federal court filing; and David Sanford, Ribeiro’s lawyer, said that neither he nor she would comment on the case further…

Although statistical data repeatedly shows that women at large law firms earn less than their male counterparts and have fewer leadership opportunities, regardless of work experience and practice areas, suing for gender discrimination continues to be seen as career suicide for someone who does not want to leave big-firm life or feels she can’t afford to…

…[T]he National Association of Women Lawyers and the NAWL Foundation reported after a study of the 200 largest law firms that 30 firms’ responses showed a typical female partner earned 80 percent of what a typical male partner did…

[Also refers to Chadbourne, Greenberg Traurig and Howrey, Proskauer]